Boston v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2025
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3109
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Landis v. North American Co. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · United States v. Lanier · Texas Industries, Inc. v. Radcliff Materials, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1 12 District Court Rule 9(b) provides: Where an action is not diligently prosecuted, the court may require the plaintiff to show why the action should not be dismissed. If the plaintiff does not show good cause why the action should not be dismissed, the court shall dismiss the action without prejudice. A court shall dismiss actions in which no action has been taken for a year as provided in 12 O0.S.1981 § 1083.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“to control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. GARCIA v. LANE · GARCIA v. LANE“While it is true that diligence of litigants in attending to their matters pending in the courts is of importance, and while it is a significant function of the courts that the litigation before them be determined and disposed of as rapidly as possible, it is also important that all litigants be given a reasonable opportunity to have their day in court, and to have their rights and liberties tried upon the merits. The latter is and should be the primary right of the parties and duty of the courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. GARCIA v. LANE · Cornett v. Carr
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.